DANIELA ESPINOSA HOYOS

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

PI: Krystyn J. Van Vliet, Daniel G. Anderson

PhD Graduate

Daniela Espinosa Hoyos is a recent Ph.D. graduate in Chemical Engineering at MIT. She is enthusiastic about interdisciplinary, innovative solutions to challenges in drug discovery and development. Her dissertation focused on developing new tools, including materials and methods, for preclinical drug discovery in the area of myelin disorders. Daniela was a CASSS Frantisek Svec Fellow, an Alfred P. Sloan 2017-2020 Scholar, and received honorable mentions for the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship and Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship. Daniela received a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering, Summa Cum Laude, from the Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico.

PUBLICATIONS:

  • Daniel, Phillip, Asada, Harry, “Stable Walking Policy for Wearable SuperLimbs Attached to a Human with
    Tuned Impedance,” IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2020. Las Vegas, NV. 25-29 Oct 2020
  • Daniel, Phillip, Church, Joseph, Trumper, David, “Actuation Schemes for Flexible Hull, Undersea Vehicles.” 29th American Society for Precision Engineering Annual Meeting. MIT Precision Motion Control Lab. The Westin Boston Waterfront, Boston. 11 November 2014. Poster Presentation.
  • Daniel, P., Church, J., Trumper, D. (2014). “Series Elastic Actuation for Underwater Robot Locomotion.”
    Proceedings of the 29th Annual Meeting. Abstract accepted at 29th American Society for Precision Engineering Annual Meeting. The Westin Boston Waterfront, Boston. 11 November.
  • Daniel, Phillip, Church, Joseph, Trumper, David, “Actuation Schemes for Flexible Hull, Undersea Vehicles.”
    NIWeek 2014. MIT Precision Motion Control Lab. Austin Convention Center, Austin. 20 July 2014. Poster
    Presentation.
  • Daniel, P., Parness, A., “End Effector Design and Fabrication for Multi-Surface Adhesion,” California Institute of Technology Undergraduate Research Journal, Winter 2013, vol. 13, number 1
  • Parness, A., Hilgendorf, T., Daniel, P., Frost, M., Kennedy, B., “Controllable ON-OFF Adhesion for Earth Orbit
    Grappling Applications,” IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, Montana, 2-9 March 2013
  • Southern California Conferences for Undergraduate Research Presenter (SCCUR), “End Effector Design and
    Fabrication for Multi-Surface Adhesion,” November 2012
  • Daniel, P., Slocum, A., “The Design and Fabrication of a Passive and Continuously Repositionable Joint,” Thesis. MIT, 2013. Cambridge: MIT, 2013. Print.

HONORS & AWARDS:

  • Gates Millennium Scholarship Program (GMSP) Fellowship Recipient
  • Won $10,000 InfyMakers award
  • Awarded $5,000 donation from Draper labs
  • Accepted into Maxon Motor’s Young Engineers Program
  • Raised $3,087 on Kickstarter.com
  • Two time featured author on www.Instructables.com
  • Moore Foundation MURF Fellow
  • GMSP Scholarship Recipient